The EU has lost control of its foreign policy to Washington, France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen told RT, calling the bloc’s diplomacy a “catastrophe” in which no independent voice of reason could be heard.

“The European Union’s diplomacy is a catastrophe,” Le Pen told RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze in an exclusive interview to be broadcast Monday. “The EU speaks out on foreign affairs either to create problems, or to make them worse.”

Where Ukraine is concerned, Le Pen believes that Europe had no right to blackmail the country into breaking up its historical and cultural ties to Russia.

“When offering a partnership agreement to Ukraine, which would mean breaking off of its allied relations with Russia, the EU has clearly set blackmail in motion. And that can’t help but fuel dissent inside the country,” Le Pen told RT, adding that “pouring oil onto the fire” could lead to an increasing risk of a civil war.

“The EU has been doing nothing but making the situation worse using threats, blackmail and sanctions, which, as we can see now, clearly do not encourage anyone to sit at the negotiation table in order to come up with a peaceful and reasonable solution to the conflict.”

As Le Pen sees it, all of this bluster over Ukraine joining the EU has been for not, as the country is far from having the economic development necessary for integration.

“Ukraine’s entry into the European Union; no need to tell fairy tales. Ukraine absolutely does not have the economic level to join the EU.”

Le Pen says she is personally opposed to any expansion of the EU, and would not wish the bloc’s troubles on a country as economically deprived as Ukraine.

“I am sympathetic to Ukrainians, and therefore wouldn’t wish to invite friends to this table of nightmares. I myself want to get out of the EU, so I will not say to them: ‘Come on into the EU,’” she said.

Le Penn, whose National Front party in late May secured a third of France’s seats in the European Parliamentary elections, says the EU’s foreign policy has been badly misguided by the United States, Syria and Libya being just some of the most recent examples.

“We’ve made a great deal of foreign policy mistakes under Washington’s influence, but the worst of them is Syria,” Le Penn said.

There are “no independent states left in Europe” that would call for peaceful solutions to conflicts, the National Front leader says.

“We [National Front] have been the only party to stand against the option of intervening in Syria. When the crisis first started, we said France is supplying arms to jihadists, who would spread terror if they win. That’s what already happened in Libya.”

“That’s the way the US acts in the international arena. But what is even more horrible, is that one can’t hear the voices of European countries,” Le Pen added.

Watch the full interview with Marine Le Pen on RT’s SophieCo on Monday, June 9.

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The US is using the EU as a battering ram against Russia, with sanctions and all, meanwhile Russia delivers the EU with cheap gas and the realtionship was friendly, both the EU and Russia is a concurent to the US. just like China, the US.wants full spectrum world dominance like Rome or nazi Germany, so they use the usual playbook divide and conquer and hegelian dialectic to achieve that, arming al-cia-da who kill torutre and rape man woman and children and putting nazi banskters in power via coup in Ukraine, the tensions could bankrupt both the EU and Russia and who would win? the US. delivering inferior quality gas for double the price for Europe and putting up missile systems 400km from Moscow ala cuban missile crysis 2.0 wich was by the way only a response to the US. Jupiter missiles deployed in Turkey.
The US. is falling apart and is in panic mode like nazi germany in 1944, its debt is unpayeble, infrastructure and society are in ruins,(NDAA, reinforced patriot Act, police brutality,militarized police, police state, endless NSA wiretappings, TSA, VIPR teams, checkpoints the list goes on) both the EU and Russia are in better shape in every aspect, if the friendly atmosphere stays beetween the EU and Russia than the US. and its bankster rulers and the military industrial complex can say goodbuy to their world domination nazi bankster rule depopulation plans.